I'll never understand how men who are so motivated to advance themselves in one facet of life (career) can be so unmotivated to take care of themselves in another (weight/health). Hit the goddamn gym like your players to whom you pontificate speed, strength and good health you hypocrytical pair of disgusting piles of roly poly goo. /boggle

Mangino used to have a sideline fan in his office at KU to keep him cool in the summer. I guess the body's normal mechanism (sweating) didn't cut it and he needed further support to regulate his body temp.

.....can you imagine trying to have a conversation with him while that thing was running?

As a frequent reader (and not so frequent poster) - I actually like having the grammar Nazis policing the posts. It makes people double-check their posts and reading through comments is more enjoyable. And its a michigan blog - obviously the standard for commenting should be higher than a board that looks like it was published with tweets.

I'd lay much of the blame associated with the proliferation of horrible grammar on massively multi-player online games, where kids and foreigners learn how to spell from other gaming illiterates in the chat channels.

There are several examples, but to me the most annoying MMPORG inspired mistake is: "definAtely." I played World of Warcraft a while and found "definitely" misspelled that way about 85% of the time. I must be an angry man, but every time I saw "definAtely", I wanted to knock teeth out through my computer screen.

Other annoyance level 10 favorites include:

There are so many tards misspelling "there/their/they're", that they're driving me effing crazy with their constant errors.

The effect of "effect/affect" being reversed, is that it affects me adversely.

When I see tards bungle "you're/your" I want to scream "You're driving me crazy with your horrible illiteracy! Die in a cold fire!"

It seems strange and awesome to have so many top, top flight players on campus this early. We're already planning to host (or have hosted) the #1, #2, #12 (Hood) and #19 overall prospects who are all out-of-staters plus George Campbell who is probably/maybe the #1 WR in 2015. Very nice

This wasn't covered on here but yesterday Chantel Jennings tweeted that a big time recruit was going to spend his third consecutive weekend visit in AA. I assume this means Drake Harris? More good news.

According to his Rivals page, he's 6'6'', 275 lbs, so essentially, on track to be a road grader, as people have mentioned. If Michigan is in his top group, to have another section of The Wall on offense in place for the future would not be a bad thing at all.

I think you have to establish a culture where kids know even if they are not "the guy," they will still get playing time through being rotated in. I would guess Hoke is going to attempt to do what he did with the dline and have guys rotate in and out on the oline. Therefore keeping people fresh. We really couldn't afford to do that much last year thanks to depth issues, but in the future, I could see that happen.

His reps in pass blocker were not that impressive, but man is he a specimen. That's a solid 275 lbs for a high school junior. I bet in a couple years he will be stonewalling those defensive ends. Good looking prospect.

over the next few years (15, 13 and 18 IF everyone matriculated on schedule), should we expect more kids from outside the Midwest as the coaches can focus on a tight group of studs?

The 2014 class is showing signs of multiple top 100 kids with most outside MI and OH. There are still 10 or so elite in the area every year but that pile is small with ND and OSU fighting for some of those 10.

It "feels" like Hoke is shifting to more national effort now that a local foundation exists.

It's good see that the highly rated guys at least seem to find Michigan attractive again. Hope we can pull them in. Speaking of highly rated prospects; is anyone familiar with Clifton Garrett? He's a 4 star linebacker out of Illinois, with offers from all of the big-time programs except Michigan. Does anybody know why Hoke & Company hasn't offered him?

The issue appears to be that Michigan has a plethora of linebackers, and Michigan already has a MIKE in the 2014 class in the form of Michael Ferns III. If Ferns weren't committed, then I think Garrett would have been offered by now.